STEM 
10 Great Stem Sites for the Classroom
Nearpod - Nearpod is an online platform that teachers can use to create interactive lessons, quizzes, polls, and even virtual field trips. They are currently offering increased resources and access for educators as well as weekly webinars dedicated to remote learning.
Moby Max - Free for Teachers - Moby Max Home Guide
Typing Agent - free - go to clever for this app
Free online Virtual Robotics and Coding Classes
Free STEM Resources
Amazon offering free computer science courses online - Amazon Engineer is offering free access to computer science courses while students are locked out of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The sponsored course are for independent learners grades 6-12, and teachers who are remotely teaching this age group. Parents can also access this curriculum. Read More.
SciGirls - SciGirls is a show for middle school students, showcasing bright, curious tween girls putting STEM to work in their everyday lives. Each half hour episode will inspire your students to explore the world around them and discover that science and technology are everywhere.
Codelicious computer science eLearning series. - This free, unplugged lesson is a fun way for teachers to explore Idea Generation and Visualization with their students. It is ideal for kindergarten - 5th grade students. You can download the lesson plan, along with an instructional video, here. - If you missed Part 1, you can download that coding lesson plan here.
Full computer science curriculum and coding platform at no cost -eSchool News - During this time, Vidcode would like to support schools in any way they can. As such, they are offering their full coding platform and research-backed computer science curriculum for free to help schools and districts as they plan for potential school closures and student absences. If your school or district is planning a closure for health-related reasons, you can apply to get access to Vidcode's full computer science curriculum and coding platform at no cost.
Cornell Tech provides CS lessons for kids at home - "This is our first-ever CS at Home broadcast," Diane Levitt, senior director of K-12 education at Cornell Tech, told a class of third-graders from Public School 86 in the Bronx on March 26, 2020, via Zoom. "Thank you for being part of our experiment. We have never done this before. So it's good to do it with friends." Levitt, with other members of her K-12 team, were piloting a new virtual lesson plan intended to help New York City teachers instruct their students remotely in computational thinking. READ MORE
Girls who Code at Home - a weekly series of resources to keep up your learning at home, and ideas on how to stay busy and—most importantly—brave.

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